Frank Helk
  • Gründau,
  • Hessen,
  • Germany
Member Since: 2004/02/17
Industry: Engineering
Tech Certifications:
CERTIFIED EXPERT

Provide a quick, creative biography in 140 characters or less.

More bio
Activity
Points this month25
Total points466,006
Questions: 90
Solutions: 373
Articles: 1
Videos:
Tutorials:
Posts:
Group Discussions: 3
Full Biography

Born in the early nineteen-sixies.
Nothing worth to be mentioned here happened ever since ...

... but wait ... one thing:  I'm with Experts Exchange for more than 0x0F years now ;)

Breaking News: In spring 2016 I started my contribution as EE Cleanup Voluteer !

General scope of experience
------------------------------------

IT:
- modems
- common PC hardware & ancient interfaces like RS232
- Windows, some *ux insights
- networking in general
- email (deep insights, protocols, tricks, troubleshooting, ...)
- internet related troubleshooting (connections, protocols, access, troubles, ...)
- some special network/internet technology niches (OPC, DCOM, NTP, ...)
- programming in C/C++/C#, VB.NET, and other languages, HTML, some rusty memories on FORTRAN
- scripting

Non-IT:
- master's degree in nuclear (mechanical) engineering with 3+ decades of experience
- radiaton protection / health physics / nuclear power

Interests
-----------

- Science in general
- Technology in general
- Science fiction & Fantasy, esp. Perry Rhodan, Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, Stephen Donaldson, Marion Zimmer-Bradley
- Enthusiastic in fixing things who are somewhat outdated but still too good for the trashbin
- I'm donating my CPU's idle cycles to BOINC projects, my favourite is SETI@HOME. See my stats at http://stats.free-dc.org/cpidtagb.php?cpid=ec4a5fd03c16a363d46f7dc9f7f3d15e&theme=1&cols=1

More
Education
FH Aachen, Campus Jülich, Germany
Dipl. Ing. (FH)
Mechanical Engineering / Nuclear Technology
1982 – 1988
More
Professional Background
No Professional Background shown
More
Languages
English
Limited Working Proficiency
German
Native or Bilingual Proficiency

Level Progress

Current: Level 15
Frank needs 45,994 points to level up.
LVL 16
  • Overall
    15
  • Networking
    6
  • Microsoft Excel
    5
  • Internet Protocols
    5
  • Server Software
    5
  • Windows Server 2008
    4
  • C#
    4
  • .NET Programming
    4
  • Windows OS
    3
  • Windows 7
    3
  • Visual Basic.NET
    3
  • Crystal Reports
    3
  • ASP.NET
    3
  • Email Servers
    3
  • Windows Server 2012
    3
  • Operating Systems
    2
  • Microsoft Legacy OS
    2
  • Email Clients
    2
  • Email Software
    2
  • Linux
    2
  • Exchange
    2
  • Outlook
    2
  • Active Directory
    2
  • Regular Expressions
    2
  • Hardware
    2
  • Microsoft Office
    2
  • Windows Networking
    2
  • C++
    2
  • Email Protocols
    2
  • Internet / Email Software
    2
  • VB Script
    2
  • VBA
    2
  • VMware
    2
  • Microsoft Server OS
    2
  • Programming
    2
  • Visual Basic Classic
    2
  • Windows Server 2003
    2
  • Microsoft Development
    1
  • Programming Languages-Other
    1
  • Microsoft IIS Web Server
    1
  • Virtualization
    1
  • Unix OS
    1
  • Network Management
    1
  • Microsoft Applications
    1
  • Routers
    1
  • Microsoft Word
    1
  • Switches / Hubs
    1
  • Network Operations
    1
  • Cisco
    1
  • Networking Protocols
    1
  • Microsoft Access
    1
  • Programming Theory
    1
  • Wireless Networking
    1
  • Printers and Scanners
    1
  • Dell
    1
  • Math / Science
    1
  • Spreadsheets
    1
  • Web Development
    1
  • IT Administration
    1
  • Software
    1
  • C
    1
  • PHP
    1
  • Network Analysis
    1
  • Laptops Notebooks
    1
  • Powershell
    1
  • AntiSpam
    1
  • Microsoft DOS
    1
  • Windows 10
    1
  • Network Security
    1
  • Miscellaneous
    1
  • Components
    1
  • PC
    1
  • System Utilities
    1
  • Windows Batch
    1
  • Software Firewalls
    1
  • Hardware Firewalls
    1
  • Security
    1
  • Algorithms
    1
  • System Programming
    1
  • Networking Hardware-Other
    1
  • SBS
    1
  • Encryption
    1
  • Microsoft SQL Server
    1
  • Windows XP
    1
  • Azure
    1
  • Windows Server 2016
    1
  • Broadband
    1
  • Desktops
    1
  • Mobile
    1
  • PDF
    1
  • Anti-Spyware
    1
  • Adobe Acrobat
    1
  • Apache Web Server
    1
  • Windows 2000
    1
  • Vulnerabilities
    1
  • Linux Security
    1
  • Server Hardware
    1
  • Golang
    1
  • Automotive
    1
  • Displays / Monitors
    1
  • Document Management
    1
  • E-Commerce
    1
  • Editors IDEs
    1
  • File Sharing Software
    1
  • HTML
    1
  • Pascal
    1
  • Personal Electronics
    1
  • Python
    1
  • Tablets
    1
  • Thunderbird
    1
  • Web Languages and Standards
    1
  • Windows Phone
    1
  • XML
    1